God speaks today....have you listened?

At the beginning of the month our friends Pat and Don invited us to go to a 3 day conference to go see and learn from Pastors Bill Johnson and Keith Miller, in the Dallas area. It was a very interesting and enlightening time. We were looking forward to the conference, because Bill Johnson is a man full of the Spirit of God. The weather had been so nice, 70 degrees and sunny, however, when we got to Dallas the weather made a very sudden change and it got sooooo cold it snowed on us,  for 2 days, brrrr!

One day during our stay in Dallas, my friend Pat handed me a bag with many items inside of it.  It had some correspondence, bills, a couple of CD's and a book called "Chronicles from His Garden" by Lillis Boyer.

Well, few days ago I began to listen to one of her CD's; it was the one with instrumental music, my favorite, because this particular CD helps you focus on God. It places you at His feet to praise Him, to love on Him and to thank Him for all the blessings He gives us every single day.

As I continued to listen, I picked up Lillis' book and began to read.  Several pages into it, I started to have some feelings, that I usually try to hide..... Wow, wow, wow!  Alert, Alert.... I am  feeling jealous by the experiences she was describing in her book.  The envy list lengthened....it came so rapidly and suddenly that I was having problem focusing on anything else but ME.....

Lord... why don't I ever experience anything like that? She had all these wonderful experiences with God and gardens and waterfalls, amazing colors and heaven. How come other people see things and see the glorious part of the heavenly realm?... and on, and on, and on I went!  I was in the middle of this one sided conversation with God when my phone rang.... it was Nick; he called me because he needed a meal break....ooops!  I was so into my feelings that I forgot to go get Nick.  I immediately went to get my baby and I prepared him a snack. While he was taking his meal break, we talked a bit about my experience.  As soon as he got back on the road, I got on our computer to check on my Facebook and my email.

I was about to access  Facebook when I heard from inside me: "twenty-nine, thirteen."  I looked around and out of my mouth came ... "What?" Again inside me I heard "twenty-nine, thirteen." I thought, "Is this a date?"...no, we only have 12 months. "Is this a time?"... no, we only have 24 hours in the day.  Is this a lottery number... "twenty-nine, thirteen.".... then inside me once again I heard..... "Deuteronomy 29:13". "Read, Deuteronomy 29:13!" When I read it, it seemed to be incomplete so I started to read on verse 12, which reads:   

¹² You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, ¹³ to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Wooooow!  God is speaking to me...... I could not believe it.  I was nervous; excited and I started to  cry as I felt as small as a flea....I could not believe that He, The God of the Universe, was speaking to me!  He listened to my complaint and  He answered my request.  So I got on the drivers side of the RV and quickly drove to get Nick.  As he came for his other meal break, I shared with him about what God had told me.

When I was telling him about the scripture, I placed both of us in the scripture and I mentioned that His promises were for  Nick and I.  He knew immediately what I was trying to do. So he said to me. "Lucy, that promise is for you. God is speaking to you. He is your God and you are His"  Well, when he left. I continued to read in Deuteronomy 29:12-15, in my Bible and to my own surprise....here is what God said to us!

¹² You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, ¹³ to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ¹⁴ I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you ¹⁵ who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today. 

I felt in my heart that ALL the members of our family and our descendants have this promise. He is our GOD and we are His people!     

Open your heart today and listen to the still small voice of the Lord and see what He is saying to you.  Don't wait... He wants to bless you.  He loves you! He likes you! He delights in you! He is yours and you are His!